2024 History and Health Symposium
October 2, 2024
Improving Birth Outcomes: Health Disparities and Black Birthing People
Start time: 12:00 p.m.
End time: 4:30 p.m
Location: Library of Virginia (800 E Broad St, Richmond, VA 23219)
Co-Sponsors: The Office of Health Equity, the Health Humanities Lab, Birth in Color, the School of Public Health, the Institute for Women’s Health, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Description
The 2024 History and Health Annual Symposium will explore the history of reproductive healthcare and policies, the social determinants of health driving the current Black maternal health crisis, and strategies to ameliorate the health and healthcare disparities.
Objectives: At the conclusion of the symposium, attendees should have gained increased awareness of:
- The historically-rooted, systematic, and structural inequities that impact existing reproductive health and Black maternal health disparities
- Patient perspectives regarding opportunities for meaningful change that can impact health care quality and access
- Promising policies, practices and initiatives that are helping to improve birth outcomes.
Keynote Lecture: Understanding Mechanisms to Advance Reproductive Justice, Birth Equity, and Health Equity
Speaker: Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, Professor, Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing and Director of the Manning Price Spratlen Center for Anti-Racism and Equity, University of Washington